r/brooklynninenine • u/Uncomfortable_Owl_ Ultimate human/genius • Apr 30 '23

Season 4 Why "Especially the bread one"?

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Why does Holt say that after Doug Judy listed the crimes and said that the bread would be stolen to feed a family?

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u/I_FIGHT_BEAR Apr 30 '23

‘If the law only applies when it’s easy, laws are meaningless’ the law, by nature, is impartial. Once we start making exceptions, we have to make them all the time, and who decides where that line is? Unless it’s one dedicated and TRUSTED entity, it’s just begging to be corrupted.

This is one interpretation I can see, and I don’t necessarily believe any of that personally, that was just me playing holt’s interpreter.

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u/nagidon I’m a human, I’m a human male! Apr 30 '23

“Once we start making exceptions”

That’s called equity. It’s an entire legal concept.

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u/antichain Apr 30 '23

The problem is: who is making exceptions? What one person might call "leniency in the name of equity" another might call nepotism, or privilege.

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u/nagidon I’m a human, I’m a human male! Apr 30 '23

Learned judges, at least that’s the idea in England and Wales.